Utilitarianism refers to an action that can be said
good if brings benefit for many people or in another term as a “the greatest
happiness of the greatest numbers”. Related to the definition, Philip Morris
give so much advantages as contribution and makes a positive economic to a
state’s economy, such as give a huge tax to government, reduce unemployment by
open jobs for people particularly to the
domestic people, and contribute in devisa from export to the third world
countries. As the right to business, Philip Morris have a right to be involved in business as long as not to break people right (for example not implemented monopoly market, not obeying the goverment regulations and make an effort to close the people’s chance to open business too). As a justice, established the food company from result of selling beer and cigarette profit is still can be right even though there are also have negative assumption that this way as a “money laundry”. Social responsibility that Philip Morris did is to paid taxes as compensation to smokers, but in case there is no actually real corporate social responsibility that company did to the environment.
Virtue
is good morale quality in character. In our syndicate opinion, Tobacco and the
beer industries have been characterized as “sin industry”, because they make
many people get sick and die, and then smoking cause has harm effect and can reduce productivity
that will effect to economic condition in one country. To cover this condition,
government will pay some health care expenses. But in the other hand, tobacco
and the beer industries get much profit. Then they laundry their “dirty money”
to buy up clean food business, in effect protecting these funds from any
potential liability that might strike its tobacco business. We think it is very bad when we deceive others,
we make them suffer to take some dirty profit and then a country become
unproductive and we admitted that we take care them, but the truth is not. When
the economy condition become so bad, instead that company have some fun at our
misery. They don’t have any morale.
Government through Federal Drug
Administration (FDA) concern with this issue because this activity very related
to the government effort to collect tax and reduce unemployment. In other hand,
the government also must concern to public health about addictive content in
cigarette and educated people about the danger of smoking cause effect. But
still, there is always produce debate regarding to the cigarette company
because some people may argue this business is wrong way (especially who
concern in health issues) but in another side, people who take a look deeply
particularly who concern in business because this business effort can be
contribute benefit to the country.
